Poems

Loneliness These autumn gardens, russet, gray and brown, The sward with shrivelled foliage strown, The shrubs and trees By weary wings of sunshine overflown And timid […]

Mnemosyne- It ‘s autumn in the country I remember. How warm a wind blew here about the ways! And shadows on the hillside lay to slumber […]

Mt. Lykaion Alone on Lykaion since man hath been Stand on the height two columns, where at rest Two eagles hewn of gold sit looking East […]

Near Helikon By such an all-embalming summer day As sweetens now among the mountain pines Down to the cornland yonder and the vines, To where the […]

On Some Shells Found Inland These are my murmur-laden shells that keep A fresh voice tho’ the years be very gray. The wave that washed their […]

Service- Chide me not, darling, that I sing Familiar thoughts and metres old: Nay, do not scold My spirit’s childish uttering. I know not why ‘t […]

Sir, say no more Sir, say no more. Within me ‘t is as if The green and climbing eyesight of a cat Crawled near my mind’s […]

Six O’Clock Now burst above the city’s cold twilight The piercing whistles and the tower-clocks: For day is done. Along the frozen docks The workmen set […]

The Melancholy Year Is Dead with Rain The melancholy year is dead with rain. Drop after drop on every branch pursues. From far away beyond the […]

The Passions that We Fought With The passions that we fought with and subdued Never quite die. In some maimed serpent’s coil They lurk, ready to […]